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Why the Wrong Movies Win Oscars

February 28, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

Audiences are drawn to feel-good films like Green Book because they’re “based on a true story.” But movies that misrepresent and simplify history distort our understanding of the past

Arts & Culture

The Cosmic Tangents of Jean-Luc Godard

May 18, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Brian D. Johnson

At eighty-seven, the legendary director explains why he’s still making movies

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Film / July/August 2017

The Movie That Shocked Canada

June 21, 2017May 21, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

Fifty years ago, Miracles in Modern Medicine brought the uncensored human body to the big screen—and into popular culture

Film

Seeing Lili Elbe

January 7, 2016December 7, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

Two writers—one transexual, one not—debate their radically different reactions to The Danish Girl